Friedgen happy to be coaching

10:10 AM,
Feb. 5, 2014

Ralph Friedgen, 66, is excited to return to coaching after three years away from the game.

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At the age of 66, after three years out of coaching on the heels of 10 years of calling his own shots, Ralph Friedgen decided to return to the profession as an assistant.

If the timing seems strange, Friedgen found it just as strange last year when his daughter scheduled her wedding for the middle of football season, a situation which the former Maryland head coach joked Tuesday kept him from being a legitimate candidate for Rutgers football's offensive coordinator vacancy.

Friedgen holds the position now, one year later, after being hired by coach Kyle Flood last week as likely the highest paid ...